Fill the Gap (4)
Under the teachings of the six Templar Lords, Ryu Han-bin steadily learned and mastered Dog-Beating Swordsmanship.
It was a very desirable performance, not a level-up but a skill upgrade.
The two Dragons also continued to digest their accumulated energy and mastered their magic spells and Magic Swordsmanship techniques.
With the full support of the six Churches, Artis worked hard to gain Flame-type magic.
Effir had become the best disciple of Angelica, the Lord of Rhamniana Templar, who usually adored her.
Angelica’s love for Effir wasn’t just because she was obedient and cute.
“Effir, you’re a Magic Swordswoman, and you use two swords like me, right?”
Angelica had a more profound understanding of the weapons, unlike Effir, who had chosen twin blades simply because of her quick mobility and fast conversion between attack and defense.
She affirmed.
“double swords are weak, Effir.”
“That’s why I’m fighting using speed and counterattacks.”
“Still, even if you fight in that style, it’s better to just proceed with a sword-and-shield style or a two-dagger style.”
“Uh, so what’s good about dual-wielding swords?”
Angelica lifted her weapons from side to side and put the force on them.
Magic swordsmanship was activated, and blue light began to cover the two blades.
She stuck out her tongue playfully.
“Twin blades are useful when something starts to come out of the blade.”
Whether it was one-sided or two-sided, it didn’t make a difference in the power of magic swordsmanship.
If so, it was rather advantageous to increase the direction of attack.
If the battle were based on force, not strength or weight class, the disadvantage of dual-wielding would disappear.
“That’s why there are so many double swordsmen among the Magic Swordsmen.”
“Isn’t it the same for Aura users getting something out of a sword?”
“The Aura users are normal fighters until they’re around level 50s, aren’t they? So they don’t often choose double swords from the beginning.”
To be exact, few of those who chose two swords as their primary weapon could be strong enough to awaken the Aura.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"}) “On the other hand, Magic Swordsmen are Magic Swordsmen from the beginning. Even if they start with double swordsmanship, they can be skilled enough in later levels.”
Holding onto Effir, Angelica generously gave away the long experience she had realized.
“Your level is a lot higher than mine, isn’t it? So it’ll be enough to reflect on the basics you missed.”
For Effir, a genius but primarily self-taught, it was indeed teaching like rain for a drought.
That was how everyone steadily filled the gap.
Kibie was no exception.
She passed on the swordsmanship of the Sword King to Ryu Han-bin, also known as the Sword King Series, through the Gigant.
Nevertheless, he didn’t learn Baotolt’s swordsmanship.
The Sword King series had high requirements on body condition.
Even Kibie, who had the body of a female Valtara warrior, couldn’t exert that power.
So, under Sabine Asil’s guidance, she was steadily learning the Basarada series from the south of the continent.
Sabine Asil was also a strong-built woman who was as good as the Valtara warriors. Her skills were also compatible with Kibie’s physical condition.
She studied the ‘Complete Omphalos’s Blessing’ by learning the Basarada series spearmanship.
Of course, the ultimate goal was to separate the Divinity of the Darkness, but there were other reasons.
It was because of Ryu Han-bin’s simple question.
* * *
“Kibie.”
“Yes?”
“Can’t you separate it back?”
A piece of black crystal that they happened to have in their hands at Highten.
It was the Fragment of Omphalos’ Complete Blessing.
That allowed Han-bin’s party to win the battle against Hollien.
The problem was that they had exhausted the one fragment they had.
“If we can separate it again, we can tuck it up in our sleeve when dealing with the Thunder King or the Archmage.”
They could just turn them into a deity by throwing it at them. Then, he would clear them with his Skill of the Absolute: Lord Throughout Heaven and Earth!
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"}) “Of course, if we do something wrong, they turn into full-fledged deities, and it would be over. So, we’ll have to be careful, but it’s not bad to have it anyway.”
It seemed plausible.
But Kibie didn’t know how to do it.
“… How do we separate it?”
“Hmm…”
“Han-bin, what was it like when you got it in the first place?”
“Well….”
Ryu Han-bin agonized for a while, looking ambiguous.
“I just beat him to death.”
Kibie breathed a deep sigh.
“Uh, I didn’t know what I was doing, so I have no choice but to recreate the situation?”
Then Kibie closed her eyes and opened her arms.
“Well, beat me.”
“… Are you serious?”
“If I could save the world, then deliver the pain on me!”
The firm determination of the Goddess deeply moved Ryu Han-bin.
So he respected her will to the fullest.
“But I can’t beat you with my own hands. I’ll let Sabine do it.”
Sabine beat Kibie without any worries.
“Forgive me, Kibie!”
“Wow!”
Looking down at Kibie, who changed from an elegant black-haired beauty to ‘something tattered,’ Ryu Han-bin smacked his lips.
“That’s weird, isn’t it? I saw black energy crawling out when she was beaten up.”
Kibie, who barely came to her senses, gritted her teeth.
“… You’ve made a woman look like this, and you’ve got nothing?”
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"}) “You’re not human, are you? You’re a Goddess.”
“I’m human as an incarnation!”
Regardless, in that way, the Fragment of Complete Omphalos’s Blessing couldn’t be separated.
A different approach was needed.
“Oh, so, Kibie, why don’t you transplant Omphalos’s blessing? It’s in your body anyway. It’s just a long way off.”
Hollien used that to gain the Divinity of the Darkness.
“Can’t you use the Divinity in that way? You’ve already erased the influence of the Devil. Maybe we can use that Divinity to separate the debris…”
Kibie shook her head firmly.
“Though theoretically, it’s possible…”
If she did, she would be in big trouble.
“Do you want me to make a fool of myself?”
“Oh, does that work that way?”
Han-bin clicked his tongue.
He was coming up with other ideas, too.
“Then you can’t use that to drive your experience.”
If Kibie transplanted Guidelines from Latna, he thought she could kill a lot of monsters and raise her level, just like Artis and Effir, but that seemed too much.
But there was an unexpected income.
Kibie, who was looking at her condition without much thought, was surprised and frightened at the same time.
“Huh? The Divinity of the Darkness is coming off little by little?”
Even at that moment, she could hold the great sword called Divinity.
But she couldn’t pull it out of the rock.
Despite all nonsense, very few of the Divinity had returned as she continued to grasp at it.
“To paraphrase, scratching out the gilt or decoration on the handle of a sword…”
Ryu Han-bin laughed.
“That’s a pretty miserable situation.”
“But it’s better than nothing.”
Decidedly, she scratched the Divinity and turned it into power.
Of course, that didn’t restore her power as a Goddess.
Was it a sword because it was part of the sword, peeled off the handle of it?
“But we can build up the power of the incarnation.”
She consistently collected scraps of power and converted them into shadow-reading, physical traits, and Aura, which was the energy of the incarnation.
No matter how little it was, it was the power of a Goddess.
Kibie’s physical ability reached the level 100s, and the total amount of her Aura had soared to level 120s.
Of course, the skills didn’t support it. Rather, she just had a very high specification.
“So, you’re saying you’re physically competent, and you have a high volume of the Aura, right?”
Leon Hart smiled when he heard the news.
“That’s great! I’ve taught Han-bin already, so I know what to do!”
Of course, Kibie also knew how her friend had learned the skills.
The next day.
“Ahhhhh!”
On the other side of the sparring camp, where Ryu Han-bin’s scream resonated, Kibie’s wailing was added.
“Ahhhhh!”
* * *
Han-bin’s party and the six Templar Lords returned to the royal palace in Allendia.
It was because the energy feeding of two Dragons in the Ice-Flame Forest had been ended.
Energy digestion and additional performance didn’t necessarily have to be carried out in Serhithran.
While training at the royal palace, they frequently visited Hollien to find out information about the Thunder King and the Archmage.
Hollien had already been working with all her heart.
But she hadn’t revealed all the information thoroughly.
She didn’t hide it on purpose, but a person couldn’t reveal all the information about something perfectly.
Was it possible if Latnains asked the Earthlings to reveal all the information about cars?
They thought they had already explained everything, but if someone asked them later which side was more significant, the front tire or the back tire… Only then would they realize.
They didn’t even think about explaining that all four tires were similar sizes.
In that way, it was necessary to visit and check Hollien whenever questions arose constantly.
There was definitely information that could only be answered by asking questions.
“I come to you with a question, Hollien.”
“Please tell me, Kibie.”
“Why are you so sure that you can gain the Divinity?”
The six great transcendents, omnipotent Goddesses, who had ruled Latna, spoke in unison.
The mortal couldn’t rise to the divine level.
At that moment, Latna would walk the path of destruction.
So far, Kibie felt that the Top Three were moving with greed for eternal life, ignoring that fact through ‘human stupidity.’
“But when I think about it, it’s weird.”
The Archmage was a wizard who was better than anyone else. She was not so stupid as to not even see the truth due to mere greed.
“You were moving with confidence even the Almighty Goddesses found impossible.”
Why?
What the hell did they believe in?
Unlike usual, Hollien showed hesitation.
“That… that’s…”
“What’s wrong? Are you going to hide it?”
She sighed at Kibie’s interrogation.
“No, I’ll tell you everything.”
The Top Three had said nothing would happen to Latna.
The Goddesses said Latna would be destroyed if it remained that way.
“Actually… both are right.”
The Top Three, especially the Archmage, knew how fragile the world would be if they were to gain the Divinity.
Over time, the collapse would accelerate, which would then allow the invasion of Omphalos.
“So Genovia wanted to narrow the world down.”
